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Frogs, toads, and salamanders have delicate skeletons that do not fossilize easily, so their remains are uncommon in the fossil record outside asphaltic sites such as La Brea Tar Pits.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Brain tissue doesn’t fossilize, and so researchers examine the shape and size of the brain cavity in fossilized dinosaur skulls to deduce what their brains may have been like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

My mom emigrated from South Korea in 1967, bringing a set of flavors, techniques and recipes that would fossilize from that moment.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2023

Historically, reports of scientists finding fossilized brain tissue have been controversial because it was once thought that nervous tissue couldn’t fossilize, Live Science previously reported.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2022

If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The scans confirmed fossilized soft tissue in cut sections of the rib.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

If you’ve been to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, you’ve probably been wowed by the fossilized remains of Thomas, the formidable 34-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex dominating the Dinosaur Hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Remarkably, evidence of that ancient meal survived in fossilized feces, preserving what researchers describe as the finest feather specimen yet discovered from the age of dinosaurs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Although he understands the rationale, Kim sees this as part of a wider trend of abandoning Korean words simply because they feel old-fashioned, fossilizing them even further.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025

The challenges associated with fossilizing soft tissues make the trilobites Losso studied even more special.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

Fish skeletons — even after fossilizing — retain records of an animal's growth, which depends on seasonal food availability.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 23, 2022

I see," said Miriam mischievously, "you think that sculpture should be a sort of fossilizing process.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne